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The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
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To Qualify as a “Murderous Court”

If one fled after having been convicted at a court and again comes up before the same court, the [first] judgment is not set aside. Wherever two witnesses stand up and declare, “We testify that so-and…

Hasmonean Champions of Torah

Many of the people, everyone who forsook the law, joined them, and they did evil in the land; they drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had. Now on the fifteenth day…

Ezra as Priestly Scribe

This Ezra came up from Babylon as a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which was given by the God of Israel; and the king showed him honor, for he found favor before the king in all his requests.

Writing Down the Oral Torah

R. Judah bar Naḥmani, the disseminator for Resh Lakish, expounded [as follows]: One verse says: Write you these words, and one verse says [i.e., it states later in that same verse]: For…

A Sign of Mourning

The sages taught [the following baraita: When] a sage dies, his study hall ceases [its regular study as a sign of mourning over him. When] the president of the court dies, all of the study halls in…

A Hosha‘na Litany for Sukkot

For the sake of Your truth For the sake of Your covenant For the sake of Your greatness For the sake of Your law For the sake of Your glory For the sake of Your promise For the sake of Your…

The Numerical Sayings

7. [There are] seven things [characteristic] in a clod, and seven in a wise man:
    A wise man does not speak before one who is greater than he in wisdom.He does not break into his fellow’s speech.He is…